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Phil's birthday in San Marcos. We set up at Pecan Park and had dinner with cake at a Mexican restaurant. On Thursday, we went to Boerne and visited with the Allens. That evening we had dinner in San Marcos at Cody's (disappointing). Saturday we went to San Antonio aquarium. Then headed for home on ...

San Antonio part 2: Today I wandered off the key tourist spots, but still along San Antonio's Riverwalk. On the way to a Mexican hot spot, I stopped at the Spanish Governor's Palace built in the Adobe style of architecture. Then, I found a charity second hand shop. In case, I run out of proper clothes, there I find everything I need for about 3.99 USD a piece. Lunch has happend at a Mexican restaurant (see separate entry on food). After that I walked ...

... and tacos (in Germany better known as tortilla chips). Preferably from Doritos.

Hence, you have two types of body shapes. The oversized one is predominant. The minority type can either withstand tacos or counterbalances with running. Specially at the Riverwalk of San Antonio you see quite some runners at any time of the day.

So now you wonder what I had for lunch today? Of course tacos!! Tacos de pescado ...

... a BBQ place in Driftwood, just south of Austin. The parking lot should have been our first clue that this was a huge place. It would have held about 1000 cars. They were several fields roped off to form several large lots.

The smell of burning wood could be smelled from a far distance. Inside, the dining rooms were set up with picnic tables and benches. There is a children's section plus ...

... of such emotional significance, it was slightly depressing to see that - not for the first time since I've been in the US - the authorities had allowed the historical majesty of the place to be somewhat sullied by permitting the hopelessly vulgar - and seemingly ubiqutous - Ripley's Believe It Or Not (complete with an enormous plastic mountain lion, mid-leap, plastic cowboys and even - incredibly - a plastic Davy Crockett (one of the most famous heroes of The Alamo who ...